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Article: ORALscreen declared suitable for drug enforcement in Japan.
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- Biotech Business Week
- Article date:
- May 3, 2004
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2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Avitar, Inc., (AVR) received high marks for its ORALscreen instant test for drugs-of-abuse by Forensic Science Laboratory, Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, Osaka, Japan.
In a recent article published in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Vol. 28, March 2004, titled Application of ORALscreen Saliva Drug Test for the Screening of Methamphetamine, MDMA and MDEA Incorporated in Hair, researchers (Akihiro Miki, Munehiro Katagi, Norkiaki Shima, Hitoshi Tsuchihasi) noted that the Avitar ORALscreen on-site disposable test "provided a simple screening, suitable for drug enforcement purposes, while requiring only a 10-mg ...